STAFF DUTY

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Welcome

Our staff values ensure that our Soldiers and their Families are well trained and taken care of. We are the experts at what we do, enabling the success of the brigade down to the platoon level.

Mission Statement

The 2d Engineer Brigade trains and deploys modular, maneuver support, and combat service support units to any contingency. On order, the Brigade Headquarters deploys and executes command and control of attached forces in order to provide full-spectrum maneuver support to Army, joint, interagency operations.

Second Engineer Brigade, US Army Alaska

The 2d Engineer Brigade traces its lineage to the 2d Engineer Amphibian Brigade which was at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts, on June 20, 1942. The 2d Engineer Amphibian constituted part of the U.S. Army Engineer Amphibian Command, the U.S. military proponent to develop doctrine to sustain amphibious operations. Its principal units consisted of the Brigade Headquarters, three Engineer Boat and Shore Regiments, a Boat Maintenance Battalion, a Medical Battalion, and numerous support companies.

Anchorage, AK

Anchorage (officially called the Municipality of Anchorage) is the northernmost major city in the United States, and largest city in the U.S. state of Alaska. With an estimated 286,174 municipal residents in 2009 (374,553 residents within the Metropolitan Statistical Area), the city constitutes more than 40 percent of the state's total population; only New York has a higher percentage of residents who live in the state's largest city. Anchorage has been named All-America City four times, in 1956, 1965, 1984/85, and 2002, by the National Civic League. It has also been named by Kiplinger as the most tax friendly city in the United States.

Climate

Anchorage (current conditions) has a subarctic climate but with strong maritime influences that moderate temperatures. Average daytime summer temperatures range from approximately 55–78 °F (13–26 °C); average daytime winter temperatures are about 5–30 °F (-15–-1.1 °C). Anchorage has a frost-free growing season that averages slightly over 100 days.

Average January low and high temperatures at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (PANC) are 9–22 °F (-13–-6 °C) with an average winter snowfall of nearly 71 in (180 cm). The 1954–1955 winter had 132.8 in (337.3 cm), which made it the snowiest winter on record. The coldest temperature ever recorded at the original weather station located at Merrill Field on the East end of 5th Avenue was −38 °F (−38.9 °C) on February 3, 1947.

Summers are typically mild (although cool compared to the contiguous US and even interior Alaska), and it can rain frequently. Average July low and high temperatures are 52–66 °F (11–19 °C) and the hottest reading ever recorded was 92 °F (33.3 °C) on June 25, 1953. The average annual precipitation at the airport is around 16 in (406 mm). Anchorage's latitude causes summer days to be very long and winter daylight hours to be very short. The city is often cloudy during the winter, which decreases the amount of sunlight experienced by residents.